Centre for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

Project overview

The UKRI TAS Hub assembles a team from the Universities of Southampton, Nottingham and King’s College London. The Hub sits at the centre of the £33M Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme, funded by the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund.

The role of the TAS Hub is to coordinate and work with six research nodes to establish a collaborative platform for the UK to enable the development of socially beneficial autonomous systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice by individuals, society and government.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Gopal Ramchurn

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Connect with Gopal

Email: sdr1@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng FCGI

Director of WSI

Research interests

Web Science
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science

Connect with Dame Wendy

Email: wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Professor Diana Eccles

Dean of Medicine

Research interests

Genetic predispostion to cancer
Cancer susceptibility variant interpetation and clinical application
Patient communication to optimise shared decision making

Connect with Diana

Email: D.M.Eccles@soton.ac.uk

Professor Michael Butler

Dean of Engineering and Physical Science

Connect with Michael

Email: M.J.Butler@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Neville Stanton

Research interests

Ergonomics and Human Factors methods
Distributed cognition and distributed situation awareness
The effects of automation on human tasks, mainly focused on the development of vehicle automation in road transport

Connect with Neville

Email: N.Stanton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Age Chapman

Professor of Computer Science

Connect with Age

Email: Adriane.Chapman@soton.ac.uk

Professor Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing

Research interests

Luxury consumption
Brand management
Consumer behaviour and self-identity

Connect with Paurav

Email: P.V.Shukla@soton.ac.uk

Professor Wendy Adams

Professor of Experimental Psychology

Connect with Wendy

Email: W.Adams@soton.ac.uk

Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design

Connect with James

Email: J.P.Scanlan@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ann-Marie Hughes

Associate Professor

Connect with Ann-Marie

Email: A.Hughes@soton.ac.uk

Professor Christian Enemark BA, LLB, PhD

Professor in International Relations

Research interests

Ethics of war and peace
Politics of global health
International security

Connect with Christian

Email: C.Enemark@soton.ac.uk

Professor Susan Gourvenec FREng, FICE, FIEAust, PhD, BEng

Deputy Director SMMI

Connect with Susan

Email: Susan.Gourvenec@southampton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Health Technologies

Our research areas are: Optimizing Treatment and Behaviours; Novel Medical Devices and Systems; Community Health and Wellness; AI and Health.

Centre for Perception and Cognition (CPC)

We investigate cognitive psychology and human perception processes through vision, touch and sound. Our research explores high-level functions, including learning, memory, metacognition and reading.

Agents, Interaction and Complexity

We research the science and engineering of complex areas. We focus on areas including human-machine teams and human-in-the-loop interaction.

Computational Engineering and Design Group

Our research group is a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, combining a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.

Infrastructure Group

The Infrastructure Research Group has expertise across structural and geotechnical engineering. We address research challenges found onshore and offshore, supporting sustainability and resilience.